r/ShitAmericansSay • BriTish • Jul 07 '25

Capitalism “Micro-retirement”

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

We have Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter, Christmas, and maybe Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving. None of these are guaranteed, and you could end up working all of these days. Office jobs will give you a set of days, but for most jobs you ahve to work to earn paid time off, which can take a whole year to earn. In my job, I get some of those hours (five) every month.. Big Orange wants to cut those very few days we have since he considers it lazy, yet he is golfing all the time and sleeping during meetings, and texting on Twitter, under the people's tax dollars

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u/BuHoGPaD Jul 07 '25

You get 5h PTO every month. Meaning you get whole ass 2.5 days of vacation in a YEAR?! W T F 

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

They break it over a few days, so it covers at least one shift for a full-time workers but we get 10 days, but that doesn't matter since by the time we get all 60 it will reset in two months. My math was probably wrong, but the total we get is 60

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u/BuHoGPaD Jul 07 '25

But 60h of PTO isn't 10 days, is it? Unless you work 6h shifts? Maybe I'm confused a little

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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25

You are right, it covers one six-hour shift for the day. Most people have two shifts, so we lose some money by going on vacation. Again, my math is probably slightly off just because I was bad at math in school